Evening Gazette

              -• 31 tv D {9 D ; *T" ' J f 1 * a •/ . PITT8T0N, PA., MO AY. JAN KIIMHEB IMS. [ ARY 2. 1888. i • ffNk CHAT ABOUT DRUGS. ICE THAT NEVER MELT& Trlrk of SrtD4 Army Mas. • SCENE. IN A STREET CAR. Recently a table was published, firing the comparative rales of author*, as gathered (YoaD the business of a prominent concern. A reporter obtained from a salesman In the eta ploy of a large news company of New York, u list of Miles based on the number of copieb of Charles Dickens' works that are sold by chat ■ firm. The following table shows that -the ocmpany sells on the average: Dickens, 600; Mary J. Holmes, 400; Louisa M. Alcott, 430; Sir Walter Scott, 350; Thackeray, 80; Bulwer, 00; Mrs. E D. N. Southworth, 100; A. W. Tourgee, SO; Cooper, 50; Hawthorne, 80; ltd ward Eggleston, 80; Marion Crawford, 50; R. L. Bteveuson, 40; Helen Hunt Jackson, 40; Frances Hodgson Burnett, 30; -H. Rider Haggard, 80; Pansy books (Lothrop). 5; Beecher, 10; H. Beecher Stowe, 180; May Agr.es Fleming, 110; Lew Wallace, 200; George Elliot, 85; Marlon Harland, 100; George W. Coblo, 10; F. R Stockton, 20; W. D. Howells, 20; William Black, 12; K. D. Blackmore, 12; T. B. Aldrich, 10; Wilkie Collins, 3; Charles Reade, 10; Fielding, 3; Henry James, 3; Henry George, 5; Mrs. Augusta Evans, 20; Spurgeon, 30; Talmage, 10. Tli* Ms of Standard Works. PER80NAL THE COMING GLOR' But Equal to That of Oor UiltniD Of ail tbft Yankee tricks 1 ever beard of Jhring my twenty yean' experience behind • hotel desk, where one U likely to learn all about human invention, there ia none that will compare with one devised and successfully played by several members of an eastern delegation to the late Grand Army encampment in this city. The hotel was crowded and five or six of the New Hampshire boys were compelled to occupy one room. The department commander waa one of the party, and a gay fellow ha was. He and one other of the party used to go oat and spend their evenings, leaving the others to go to bed early. lUmarkable Generosity Toward a Poor Wodus—Touching Incident. M. Grevy slept soundly (or eight boon the night after hla resignation, for the flnt'time In six weeks. NEW YEAR'S 8ERMON BY THE REV. A FEW OF THE MEDICINES "THAT PATIENTS HAVE TO SWALLOW. Without Effect In Alaska. It is remarkable Indeed that so much of the surface ground on the Yukon Is frozen solid to a depth of several feet It is all the more so when weoome to realise the faut that during the summer it gets aa hot there as in the south. During the heat of the past season the miners found it a great convenience to go in bathing in the streams at loast twioe a day, and to eeek shady places in which to rock the gold out of the gravel. At the breaking up of winter the boars of sunshine are rapidly increasing, and oontlnue so until midsummer, whan the sua beams forth twenty-two boon oat of the twenty-four, while on the high mountain peaks it b fur a period of several days in June not entirely oat of sight the twenty-f our boar*. Two richly dressed women boarded a Fourth avenue car the other evening just at dxu/k. One was young and almost handsome, the other middle aged. They paid their fare out of well filled purses. At Fourteenth street another woman entered." "BBS WffJ pinched, worn and pale, and her dress was shabby and faded. She carried a large bundle of laundry and a baby, while a little girl, scarcely able to toddle, clung to her dress. She sank into her seat with a sigh of relief and put the bundle down on the floor at her feet, then shifted the sleeping Infant to her other shoulder and helped the toddler up on the seat beside her. Every movement betokened weariness, and her wan face tol0 plainly of suffering and sorrow. When the conductor approached for her fare the poor woman began a nervous search for her money. She felt down in the pocket of her worn gown, and as she groped within its recesses a look of consternation crossed her face. Presently she looked up in the conductor's face and said: "I cant find my money. I had ten cents in my pocket, but I must have lost it." Queen Victoria hat given 15,000 for distribution among detective* who discovered an alleged dynamite plot against her life In jubilee week. DR. TALMAQE. What a Physician Has to Ray—Applications of Ike Most Important Drags. - Watching for the Leading Symptoms. A Professional Secret. Ia This World We CM no Idea of the The other morning early a little curly headed girl of 0 or 1 years went to the Maine state house and asked an officer: "Is Governor Bod well dead." "Yes," was the reply. "Oh, he used to give me candy!" she exclaimed, and turned away crying bitterly. Extent and Glory of Heaven—Eye Hath Mot Seen nor Ear Heard Anything Lik* "What are some of the most important drugs oud their applications T said a leading physician as he repeated the reporter's interrogatory. "Why, you will be surprised," ha ■aid, "when I make tho statement that not over a dozen of the hundred and odd drugs upon the shelves of any city prescription ■tore are in general use among the profession or considered important in combating disease. No need for astonishment, it is a fact; and my experience from day to day, baaed upon obeervations in an extended practice, leads me to the conclusion that there is only one drug—quinine—which can be relied on to produce uniform results. Quinine approaches • specific more closely than any other remedy known to medical practice. AM other drugs vary, and .at times to an alarming extent, in tho results produced by their administration, but quinine Is very nearly infallible in the treatment of that class of disease popularly termed malarial, and about one-half the mortality of the world may be traced to thoae diseases. In fact in all cases of blood poisoning this drug is the favorite. In the valley of the Loire, In France; along certain portions of the Thames river, In England; the Roman Campagha and the Pontine marshes, In Italy, the const of the Gulf of Hexico, and the mangrove swamps of the tropical regions, where malaria 1s endemic, tho continued use of quinine is an absolute necessity, and from these regions no dire results have ever been recorded it. Is there a quinine habit? I have never met but one case. The effect of the drug is not speedy enough to have its use deteriorate Into a habit. the Advancing ftplendors. Brooklyn, Jan, L—At the Tabernacle th!a morning the I lev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., announced that next Sabbath he will begin a course of sermons to the women of America, with practical hints for men, the following subjects among others: "The Women Who Have to Fight the Battle of Life Alone," "Marriage for Worldly Success, without Reference to Moral Character;" "Is Engagement as Binding as Marriage P' "Women Who Are Already Uncon' genially Married," "Influences Abroad for the Destruction of Women," "Wifely Ambition Right and Wrong," "What Kind Of Man Women Should Avoid," "Simplicity as Opposed to Affectation," "Reformation iu Dress," "Flain Women," "The Female Skeptic" and "Christian Housewifery." This morning Dr. Tahnage's subject wast "The Coming Glory;" his text, I Corinthians U, 9: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the tilings which God hath prepared for them that love him." He said: Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. How strange it looks, and how strange it sounds! Not only is the past year dead but the century is dying. Only twelve more long breaths and the old giant will have expired. Hone of the past centuries will be preeent at the obsequies. Only the Twentieth century will see the Ninateenth buried. As all the years are hastening past, "it all our lives on earth will soon be ended, I propose to cheer myself, aad cheer you with the glories to come, which shall utterly eclipse all the glories past; for my text tells us that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, anything like the advancing splendors. ... The first night or two the boy* had • picket oat to see what time the commander got homo. Then they dropped on a new plan of timing him. They got a candle and burning it an hour found out exactly bow far it burned down. Then they marked It by hours and went to sleep, leaving the candle burning. When the commander got home he extinguished the light and retired. The next morning he was surprised to find that every man about the headquarters knew when he arrived home the night before. The candle trick was explained, and the com■randcr enjoyed it hugely,—Thomas Parker In Globe-Democrat. Lady Burdette-Coutts denies that she has any intention of visiting America, and adds that she is afraid that a journey to this country would probably be made unpleasant by newspaper comments. At a recent wedding the venerable old lady wore a cloak entirely composed of ostrich feathers. But dr -«U this wd long days of oootinuou. —s. 0 ray* do not peuetisl* the hmrf mi — Unit -over nearly the entire surfaoe of the country, and consequently the frosea ground underneath lies In that slat* as if packed in on ire-bouse. After It once becomes froten, as uny damp ground will do in the winter time, it quickly becomes covered with this mala, which is of a remarkably rapid growth and attains a depth of some two feet or more. During the "heat of summer this mass liccomcs dry to the depth of several Inches, and the miner* think that by a continuous burning of it as fast as it dries they will soon havo the gravel bars along the creeks, at least, cleared off, being of the impression that when tho gravel deposits are exposed to tho scorching rays of the sun and rain* and atmosphere they will readily thaw out Dr. Thomas Salpy French, who will resign the bishoprio of Lahore at the end of this year, is one of the most scholarly members of the Anglican communion. In India be is popularly called "the many tongned man of Lahore," on account of his ability to preach in nine or ten different languages. The salasmaa commented, as he went down the list, as follows: "Edward Eggleston's sales have fallen off largely; sells only in the holidays. Marion Crawford's new book soils well Helen Hunt Jackson wilt always sell. The demand for Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is as steady as clockwork., 'Ben Hur' is one of the most reliable books to sell we have ever had. H. Rider Haggard sells in spurts. The sales of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott and Bulwer scarcely vary from year to year. They are as much a standard article as flour or groceries. "Try again, misses," said the conductor, not unkindly, for even he seemed to be touched by her apparent distress. Again she tried to find the missing coin, even turning the pocket inside out. But there was nothing there. "No, it's gone," she gasped, as she glanced appealingly at the man before her, her lips trembling meanwhile Knd a suspicion of moisture glistening in her eye. lie conductor hesitated for a moment, then hardening his votce, said: "I'm verry sorry, madam, but you cant ride without paying fare." Potter Palmer, the Chicago millionaire, like most millionaires, began his business career at the very bottom of the ladder. He earned his first salary as a clerk In a Pennsylvania country store, and probably thought himself well paid when he drew his $10 on the first of each month. Mr. Palmer made his fortune by judicious investments in Chicago real estate. He managed to keep just ahead of the "boom." People have swallowed unpleasant ere* tures while incautiously drinking from brook* and springs, and it ia said a mouse once ran down a dog's throat; but wo never beard of a boy swallowing a bird. The Boston Record tell* of one who narrowly escaped doing so. ''I've heard of strange accident* befalling people," remarked a surgeon the other evening, "but the onel was called upon to attend the other afternoon beats anything for novelty that ever came under my notice. "A little lxDy was flying a kite on the housetop. Another lad two or three houses away was engaged in the same diversion. One opened his mouth to call to the other, and just then a flock of swallows came flying by. One of tho swallows, evidently oonfused, flew against the boy's faoe, driving his bill clean through his cheek. In his agony the lad closed his tooth hard and held the bird fast. Tho swallow was partly stunned by the 'hock, and with tho bird sticking out from his chock, the lad ran down stairs to his mother. She removed the bird and summoned mo to attend the lad* That bird now occupies a handsome cage In the house, and tho owner wouldn't part with it under any Story of a Swallow. Whon winter sets in the hours of sunshine gradually decrease until during the shortest days the sun shines but four hours out of the twenty-four. But at this period the aurora is most intense, and helps very materially in driving d rkness from that dreary land. The thermometer goes down to TO degs. in v. inter, but the atmosphere is very dry, and consequently the cold is not so perceptible as one would imagine.—Juneau (Alaska) Freo Press. *■ "The most remarkable book we have sold," said the salesman, "is 'Mr. Barnes, of New York.' We have sold 5,000 a week since its flint appearance, and have been from 8,000 to 10,000 behind our orders all the while. Aa it is the first book of the author the sale is beyond all precedent." Leland Stanford, Jr., had ha lived, would have reached his majority In May, 1889. It was hoped by hia parents that the university bearing hia name would be in running order by that time, but it la now bf no means certain that the building will be ready for occupancy as soon as waa expected. Senator Stanford-Mceives many letters daily from all parts of the world relating to the new university. Some of these letters contain advice,. encouragement or congratulations; others are applications from students for admission or from scholars seeking appointments on the faculty. "Oh, I know It, sir; but I've so far to go. Cant I pay you when I come back? I shall have some money then." And she looked down at her bundle as if that would confirm her statement. But the conductor was proof against the appeal, though to his credit be it mid, he was not harsh. "No, that's against the rules. You'll have to get off," he replied, as be reached up for the beU cord. The company sells for all classes of publishers, except those that sell on subscription and on installment*. The former do not properly come into comparison, but the latter publish works of a purely literary character. The figures as to the sales of the latter are remarkable. One installment house hns agencies in nearly every state in the Union. It gives the following figures of sales i f standing authors in one year: Dickens, 60,000 sets, six volumes in a set, $10 a set This number has been sold for seven years consecutively. Scott, 30,000 seta, nine volumes, at $13; Thackeray, 27,000 sets, eight volumes, at $13; Charles Lever, 13,000 seta, nine volumes, at $13; Shakespeare, 37,000 s&s, eight volumes, at $13; William Carleton, the Irish author, 90,000 sets, three volumes, at $5. This represents the total sales of this author, and not the sales per annum. "Next to quinine iodide and bromide of potassium lay tribute on the profession, although their action at times is sadly erratic. The former with iron constitutes the basis of blood purifiers, so called, although such a thing as a blood purifier, in the popular acceptation of the term, is unknown in medicine. It exists only on the cure all placards of the patent medicine compounder, and in the materia medica of the quack. Iodide of potassium acts as an absorbent in the blood, and its efficacy as a remover of impurities is brought about in that way. "Bromide of potassium and with it chloral are used principally in _Ue treatment of nervras diseases. They lessen the flow of blood to t,Ue brain, moderate nervous activity, and (jairn exciting emotions, producing a state of mental rest Thus they are used largely in the treatment of the insane, and in cases of mental exhaustion. Digitalis is probably entitled to the next place from its importance as a heart tonic. We appeal to it in cases of weakness of the heart, and in most cases of diseases affecting that organ, although its .use does not cover every species of heart disease. Bismuth and pepsin are the remedies the profession considers the most efficacious in the treatment of the internal organs of digestion. The former is used in disturbances of the stomach and bowels, while the latter is supposed to supply the lack of acid, which is one of the instruments by which food if digested in the stomach. In surgery carbolic acid and iodoform are the principal drugs used. The acid acts as a disinfectant, the other has important properties in healting.An English Quack Doctor's Trick. The other two women had watched the toene with apparent interest, and at this juncture the younger one sprang from her rieit toward the conductor and uttered an imperious "No!" Before any one could divine ber intention she had opened her purse and emptied its contents into the poor woman's lap—$4 or $5 at the least rattled down in a little shower of' coin,, while two or three •uecea rolled off on the floor. The next instant the generous young woman was out of be car. Her companion followed after hopping several more pieoes of silver into the poor woman's lap. The astonished recipient of the bounty seemed unable to speak. She impulsively coverod her treasure with one hand and burying her face against the sleeping infant she sobbed until even the conductor's heart was touched. He picked up the stray coins and placed them with the rest. Then he rang up a fare out of his own pocket, and retired to the rear platform and blew his nose vigorously.—New York Paper. The city of Corinth has been called the Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor the world beholds no such winder to-day. It stood on an Isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europo, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asiiu From her wharvee, in the construction oC wbioh whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys wtth three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such oa modern Invention cannot equal, lifted shipa from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks across the isthmus and sat them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down through the Olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nation* The mirth at all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all land* sat in her theatres, walked "her portloos and threw itself on the altar oi her stupendous dissipations. Column, and statue, and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains, into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters _ everywhere known for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture; while standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the 4sad—vases so costly that .Julius Ceesar was not satisfied until he had captured them far Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii, paced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief  touched. From the edge ef the city a hHl aroe*, with its magniOoen} tarden of columns and towers and temples (1,000 slaves waiting atone shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world. - 01 Ohlitwas not to rustics who had never seen anything grand that Paul uttered this test. They had heard the-best music that had come from the best instruments in all the world; they had heard songs floating from morning porticos and pelting In evening groves; they bad passed their whole lives among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which It hid not sped, and no tower In which it had not glittered, and no . gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for * Paul to stand thefc amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from thu temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmonies ofC which 1 speak. Then waters rushing In the basin of Pyrene aru not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite.. Tour citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at that braaen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city | you think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful rights £ but I tell yon eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered Into the heart of man, the things wbioh Ood hath-prepared for them that lova him." A short time ago a quack experimented in Lambeth with considerable success upon the pockets of an awe stricken crowd. After a preliminary harangue and a terse little lecture on the viscera, which the charlatan sketched in with colored crayons upon a blackboard on which the human skeleton was outlined in white paint, the fellow came to business. "I am going to demonstrate to you," said he, "by a startling experiment up9n one of you bystanders, that my miraculous remedy can cure all discuses of tho lungs and chest Now, whoever's got a bad cough or cold on the cTiest let stand forward." There was some little hesitation and a good deal of giggling. "Don't be afraid, my friends," said the quack; "it's all freo, gratis, for nothing. Let any afflicted person come forward and I'll show him the nature ~8f his disorder, and give him a packet of my lung healers for nothing." At last a miui with a violent cold and cough came forward. The quack doctor pretended to sound Li) chest with a stethoscope of almost pantomimic proportions and informed the staring crowd that the patient was in a galloping consumption. A very remarkable story is told in boarding school circles about Miss Nellie Arthur, the daughter of the late ex-president. She was at Mrs. Lockwood's school, and had been there a year when one day she was missed by her little chums, who crowded around the principal after the opening exercises to know where she had gone. "Where's Nelir they said. "Why, dont you knowP said the lady, "Her father, Oen. Arthur, died last night." "Was her father Gen. Arthur I"1 all asked as with one voice. "Was she the president's daughter r Miss Nellie had never hinted at what most girls would- have told before anything else. .—Exchange. The Remains of an Explorer. Oustav Nachtignl was one of the most famous German explorers of the interior of Africa. Be died at his post of duty, in Africa, and his remains were deposited on Capo i 'almas in Liberia. Herrvon Soden, tho governor of tho German colony of Cameroon, boa now received orders to go to Liberia and negotiate for the disinterment of tho remains and their transportation to, and burial at, the German colony. The grave has been repeatedly desecrated in its present location, and the government of Liberia sooms unable to prevent such outrages. The governor is to go there upon a commercial vcaaol first, and, if the Liberians are stubborn and refuse giving up the dead man's ashes, bo is to return there in a government vessel and renew his demand. Buch dnmand being coupled with a display of guns and bayonets, as usual, there is no doubt the darkies composing the Liberian government will be quick enough to see the wisdom of allowing some dry bones to be dug up rather than run tho risk of having some more bones mado dry in an attempt to prevent the German grave diggers doing their work.— Chicago New*.. From this it appears that $500,000 is spent in this country each year for Dickens in one style, $300,000 for Scott, $334,000 for Thackeray, $144,000 for Lever, $334,000 for Shakespeare, $450,000 for Mr. Carleton in sevan years. Agents report that fully one-half the families posaeaa Dickens' works.—New York Press. James Whitcomb Riley's great success at the author's readings in New York city a few weeks ago has called attention to his early life. Riley as a youth was a Journeyman sign painter. His signs were grotesque from an artistic standpoint, and often witty as far as their literary features were ounoerned. Riley has peculiar eyes and used to feign blindness, pretending that he could paint a sign by inspiration, as it were. The country folk who were thus deluded looked upon Riley as a kind of miracle worker. Once Riley joined a vender of patent medicine and traveled about singing comic songs and playing on a banjo. In this way he acquired his wonderful knowledge of "Hoosier dialect," and learned to know "the people" in all their varying phases. Danger la Wearing Sealskin daps. Winter Prognostication*. The recent cold weather has, I aee, caused t great number of people to don their aealikin caps; and this has set me to ruminating in the subject of fur coverings for the head, ["here is no doubt that when we have aero weather and high winds combined, it is absolutely necessary to have the head and eara well protected. If they are left exposed the oars may be frozen, and, even without that, the auditory nerves may be benumbed and paralysed, for every one has noticed how exposure to a cold blast will tnake his ears ring. On the other hand, if one owns a One sealskin cap he will probably wear it straight along from December to March; and luring that period there will be a great deal of moderate weather, in which a sealskin is very much too warm for comfort. At such times the possetsor of this article of luxury has two courses open to him. He can continue to wear his beautiful cap, in which case his head will be in a perpetual sweat-and he will -veaken his scalp and perhaps loae his hair; jr he can lay aside bis sealskin and put on liis hard hat, in which case he will have the linest case of influenza and catarrh on record. Any one who wears a sealskin cap should cut out this article and glue it in well on the inside of the crown,—Chicago Journal. Turtles have been discovered imbedded only nine inches in the mud, hence the winter will be a light one. An old residenter down in Cumberland county haa found the discolored head of a large spike in the gizzard of a hen; therefore the winter will be a hard one. When nails, horseshoes, flat irons, etc., are found at thia season of the year in the gizzard of the well regulated hen it la an unfailing sign that the winter will be a hard one. The' man who gets sat his square and compass and takes the latitude and longitudr of the melt of the butchered hog has not beeiso scientifically industrious as usual this sea son, but enough has been gleaned to show that the melt thia year is situate one degree north of the gall, pointing thence three de grees westerly to a rib. Hence the winib will be northwesterly, strong and cold to brisk, shifting to northwesterly and from thence to north, and thence down over the fence and out On the other hand, it has been shown that the cucumber seeds have been more oblong than usual this year, that the hickory nut shucks have been thin and the covering of onions loose and baggy, and cut low in the neck. The winds, therefore, will be light and low, amd the winter as open as a barn. Very litt'e oil is observed to stick to the feathers of the ducks that bathe in Oil creek this month; hence the ioe gorge at the Eynd farm next spring will be greater or less, as the case may be. Other indications equally reliable might be cited, but these will suffice for the present—Oil City Blizzard. "My frieud," said the quack to the unfortunate victim, "so terrible is this.disease that you can actually see it." Ho handed a gloss tube to the patient and then poured n pint of clear water into a large tumbler. "Juxt you blow into that water, my friend," he cried. The man obeyed, and the water grew discolored, turbid, and at last as white as if it had been mixed with milk The patient became as pale as ashes. "This unhappy man, my friends," said the quack, as he held the glass on high, "if he had't had the good fortune to come across me to-night wouldut have been long for t' ; world. I should have given him about a ortnigbt; that's all. Now a packet of my . jng healers will cure him. What you see iu the glass of water are his vitiated humors, the products of corruption. My magic lung healers destroy these humors in the body or out of the body. Observe, my friends, watch me carefully, there is no deception here." The quack dropped a pinch from one of a packet of powders into a glass, and directed the patient to stir it with the tube. The water became immediately clear. Then be reaped his harvest The water was liue water, and the carbonic acid in the man's breath naturally threw down the carbonate of lime at once, and rendered the water turbid. And the pilraculoua lung healer was simply a little citric acid and sugar which instantly redissolved it—Saturday Review." "Drugs," the doctor continued, "and their administration is the least arduous part of a physician's business; the great field that exer•cises skill and acknowledges ability in the ■pqotemton and out of it lies in the determining of disease or the study of its symptoms. Bare is where the physician pauses. We only know disease by it* symptoms, and when we are called to the bedside of the sick person our energies are bent to discover the most prominent symptoms, and, knowing thenii. the great traditions of the science and oar own experiences point out the remedies that are applicable. And here let me say that there is scarcely such a thing as wrong treatment, so often heard assailing members of the profession when they fail to effect a speedy cure. As I hare said, we always treat the leading symptoms first This is the invariable and only rule that can guide us, but frequently the drugs that have done most efficacious work before in combating exactly tho same symptoms appear perfectly useless in the present case; this is owing, of course, to the existence of the latent symptoms which will determine the nature of the disease, and for which we are compelled to wait —nnlnas in the meantime as incompetent in the opinion of the patient or his friends, and a new man called." About six years ago there was in New York a tall, brawny young man named Harry Marks. He wrote for newspapers, played Wall street, and did the best he could generally. Finally he went to England. Life was unpleasant her* With a capital of just 1125 he started a stock market newspaper in London. He called it The Financial Hews. How he kept it alive nobody knows. But he did. In the end it made a great hit. Last summer Marks bought him a prirate residence for $60,000 cash, and purchased the plant of Bell's Life for $75,000, both of which sums he paid in cash. It is reported that the gross earnings of his paper for the year reached 9800,000. Now he proposes to give London an illustrated Sunday paper, and the chances seem to point to the proposition that; even London journalism is to be revolutionised to follow the American pattern. The Dahlia In Franoe, According to a communication made by 11. do Cazenove to tho National Acclimatation society at Paris, France, the beautiful flower dahlia was introduced into Prance in 1713. Tho fathor of tbe famous aeronauts, Montgolfier, in that year received from a friend residing on Ile-de-Franoe (Mauritius), in the Indian oosan, some eatable bulbs. He planted them, and, seeing the blossoms, was so charmed with their beauty that he forgot everything about their being eatable, and took to cultivating them (or the flowers. Prom Annonaf, where hd lived, they rapidly spread over Prance and other countries.— Chicago News. The Reinterment of Napoleon III. A Mutiny in Pern. The mausoleum at Farn borough erected by the Empress Eugenie for the reception of the remains of Napoleon III and the prince imperial will be completed in a few weeks, and the reinterment, whioh is expected will be attended by some members of the royal family, will then take place. The church, which is close to the empress' residence at Farnborough, is built in the flamboyant style of architecture, while the crypt is of the Twelfth century style. The floor of thQ crypt is laid in solid marble, and the two sarcoobagi are of red granite. That for the recep' ion of the late emperor's remains was preented by the queen. The tombs are placed on either side of the crypt, and there is a nossive white stone altar at the head of the wpulcher. Adjoining the church is the priory, -vhich has just been completed, and in which the prior (Father Ambrose) and other priests have already taken op their residence.— Foreign Letter. Tired of Matrimony. A mutiny broke out in the barracks of the Zepita battalion at Trujillo, in Pern, and two companies succeeded in escaping after mortally wounding the captain of the guard and killing the sentry. The mutiny was led by the sergeant, who directed his forces to tho prefecture, shouting: "Long live liberty! Death to the squinting sab-prefect I" This attack was easily repulsed and the mutiny crushed. Fourteen men and their leader have been shot. It ip said that tho soldiers mutinied owing to only receiving three paper sales per day as ration money. What is the whole duty of a bridegroom when, after the wedding and the breakfast, he finds himself alone with his bride in an empty railway oompartmentt One would imagine that a few terms of endearment, and possibly an occasional caress, would not be considered quite out of place. This seems to have been the opinion of a young lady who was married at Accrington, the other day, to a Mr. John Smith. The blushing bride had not been married before, but she was naturally surprised and distressed by the proceedings of her husband. They had scarcely left Accrington, when Mr. Smith settled himself in a corner, yawned once or twice, and fell into deep slumber. It is possible that Mr. Smith in repose is not a pleasing spectacle. It is possible that Mrs. Smith was merely hurt by the stolidity of his demeanor under conditions favorable to cheerfulness, not to say enthusiasm. But it is certain that, for one or both of these reasons, the maiden slipped quietly oat ot the oarrifge at the first station, laving behind her only a slip of paper attached to Mr. Smith's coat tail, and bearing these words: "Tired of matrimony. Had enough of it and gone home to my ma. Mary."—The Argonaut. A Lowly Refreshment Stand. The base of the monument shaft itself continues to show more markedly as time goe on the weight of the tremendous shaft above it The meeting edges of the huge marbli blocks are splitting and crumbling away intC small pieces, and are seamed, scarred and cracked by the enormous pressure upon them Through these crevices the cement or other Foreign matter has penetrated, causing discolored blotches upon the white marble. Whether this crumbling process, which it continually going on, will eventually impair the stability of the shaft is a serious question. Never in the history of the world has a foundation of any kind had to support so stupendous a pressure as rests upon the base if the Washington monolith.—Washington Herald. • V Cracks Id the Washington Monolith. At the foot of tiie Fifty-ninth street elevated station, between a stout telegraph pole and one of the iron pillars, there sits a buxom colored woman attirod in the proverbial blue calico dress, an immaculate white apron, and a fantastical headdress of bandanna handkerchief. An ironing board does cHtyin front of her as a counter. Upon this is placed at one end a huge coffee urn with an oil stove underneath. Next to tbis is an immense waiter of deviled crabe. The woman usually takes up her stand about 11 o'clock at night, and there she remains until it is nearly morn* ing. During the few minute intervals on tbe elevated trains she indulges in cat naps As each train deposits its load of passengers she suddenly enthuses with the thought of a possible customer. The voice that has been trained In the old plantation school ol' music raises its notes and utters the refrain of "Hot coffee and debbled crabs." If no one stops tor purchase, and the rabidly dispersing crowd warns her to infuse more lifo into her cry, ■he sings in a higher key, "Here's nice hot corphy and debbel crabs, Ob, wont you buy dese debbel crabs?" "Do many people consult yon, doctor, whose ills are imaginary r interrogated tbe scribe. The doctor smiled and relighted bis "In answering your inquiry," he said, "i» 9vill.be necessary for me to unload a professional secret, but I guess it has leaked out begpre this. Many of our office consultations are with people who are laboring under the apprehension that they are about to become invalids. Why, a case of that character left my office not an hour ago. He is "a railroad .engineer, and thought his kidneys were Affected, an idea produaed, I suppose, by an f.~—lonul pin in the muscles of the back caused by the continued position which those men are compelled to assume. I gave him a prescription and told him he would be all right, although he didn't need it any more than you or L Til guarantee, though, that that prescription, which will fill a large bottle, will not hurt him, for it's nothing but • little syrup and water, with sufficient sarsaperilla added to color it. Why did I give it to him? Because if I told him that he needed no medicine be would in all probability go to some other physician 'who knew his business' and get the worth of bis money, as ho would term it By giving him that prescription I have saved him another tea, I used to- tell •uch people when 1 first began practice that they needed no medicine, but I found that my honest advice was attributed to ignorance on my part of their hypothetical disease. Strange, isn't it, but it is a fact, that the majority of persons who visit a physician want something for their monoy, and generally the more medicine they can got and, as a consequence, the larger their druggist's bill becomes the better you please them." The Shah's Visit. The news that the shah of Persia will visit Wnglnnri again is not welcomed by the court officials, but it will not do to offend him, and he must be lodged in a palace and feted. However, It will please the managers of public entertainments, tor the affable potentate is certain by his presence to draw a Hg crowd to any theatre or hall. The crowd which got such fun Out of Nasred-Din in 1673 will be eager to repeat its old experiences of a monarch who rather liked to be surrounded by a crowd.—Boston Transcript. You see my text sets forth the idea that, however exalted our ideas may be of heaven, they come far short of the reality. Bom* wise men have been calculating how many furldngs long and wide fa the New Jerusalem; and they have calculated how many inhabit-, ants there are on the earth; how long tha earth will probably stand; and then they oome to this estimate: that after all tha nations have been gathered to heaven, there will be room for each soul—a room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet wide. It would no* be large enough tot me. I am glad to know that no human estimate is Sufficient to take the "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," nor arithmetics calculated. I first remark that we can in this world gat no idea of the health of .heaven. When you were a child, and yoa went out in tha morning, how you bounded along the road or street—you had never felt sorrow or sickness. Perhaps later you felt a glow in your cheek, and a spring in your «tep, and an exuberance of spirits, and a oleajpeasof eye, that made you thank God you wjsre permitted to live. The nervee were harpstrings, and the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustling leavei were the rustling of the. robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew, what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth.. The diseases of past gsoeocttons oame down to us. The airs that floe* now upon the earth are not lik« thoee which floated above Paradise. They are charged With impurities and distempers. The most elaatio and robust health of earth, oompared with thai which thoee experience before whom the gates have been opened, js nothing tat sickness and emaciation. Look at tfcat'wul standing before the throne, Om earth she was a life loug invalid. See her ttep now, and hear her vote* now. Catch. 8,y«t» °°® breath of that oelestial air. Health in all the pulses health of vision, health Of sprits, immortal health. No raoking oough, do sharp pleurisies, no consuming tomtit,''ao exhaust- . lng pains, so hopltala. at wounded (OOHMRW h®) Foods of the Fatherlands. The Germans, in their homes and restaurants, boast of having hams, sausages, hares anl many other articles of food imparted with their wines from the Fatherland; the Italians, even in the Bend, exhibit various -astronomic treasures from Italy, and the •ariety of canned foods the French always import is now supplemented by regular weekly consignments of what they call "escargots," which is to say snails. But the height of this love for the foods of the fatherlands is reached by the Chinese. If yon enter one of their shops in Mott street you will see barrels of dried fowls, dried fishes, dried beans, yams and fruits, dried eels—in fact, the supply would equip the larder of a rich man's house. Yet nearly all these articles can be obtained here fresh for laa money.— New York Sun. Consumption of Ralstna. The United States is the largest consuming country of raisins in the world, and reliable Authorities estimate the consumption at about 000,000 boxes of about twenty pounds each, which, at an average of C2 per box, shows an expenditure of $4,000,000 per annum for one article in the dried fruit line. The amount referred to represents say 1,000,000 boxee Volen ia, 750,000 boxes in California, 300,000 boxes Malaga and 100,000 boxes Smyrna. The crop of the world for the present, season is estimated in round numbers at 6,500,000 boxes, about as follows: Valencia, 8,000,000 boxes; Malaga, 000,000; California, 750,000, and Smyrna, 2,000,000. The shipments of Valencia raisins to the United States to date are 600,000 boxes.—Brooklyn Eagle,' Washington Girls Have News Classes. The latest fad in social circles at Washington is news classes among young ladies. A large party meets twice a week in the afternoon, and the teacher, a lady of gr&it culture, discusses with then) th# newt of the day. She takes a newspaper, and, selecting matters of foreign and domestic interest, discusses and explains them in a most entertaining manner, the members of the class asking questions and making comments and suggestions.—Courier-Journal.Superintendent Montgomery, of the American Home Missionary society, has lately been to Utah to study the Mormon question as affecting Christian work among the Scandinavians. It is not generally known, perhapc, that over one-half oC all the Mormon converts brought to this country are Scandinavians. Mr. Montgomery found 40,000 of these people in Utah, their lot a hard one indeed. He is at work also preparing a series of articles to be published in ail of the Scandinavian papers on both sideaof theses, setting forth the truth concerning Utah and the Mormon church, and warning Scandinavian people everywhere against the enticements of Mormon missionaries. —Chicago Times. The belated passenger who does try a cap pf her coffee generally adds a nickel to her price, and, if his digestion be good, a deviled crab prepared in the old southern style of cooking makes him wonder that sucr. things can be found at that timo of night. The woman who keeps the stand is said to make between £3 and f3 per night.—New York Evening Sun.  I heard a curious story about Mrs. Farcn Stevens, the other day, which was extremely characteristic. A friend Calling tvas shown ap into her boudoir and took tbo first chair, They conversed for a while, or rather he listened with interest to her caustic comments on men and things, until she said suddenly: 0«nu In Brown Paper. Almost all the frogs used for experiments in vivisection in the European universities are supplied by an old fisherman of Kopenich, who, for forty-five years past, has devoted himself to this pursuit Sometimes he has succeeded in catching as many as 1,000 in one night. The traffic must be quite profitable, as the frogs sell for an average of two to foar conts apiece.—Period. Espan. Frogs In ComiMiw, A Georgia newspaper tells of a slender, delicate and sweet young woman who went to a "sugar boiling" the other day. She remained twenty-four hours, during which she ate fourteen stalks of sugar cane and drank fifty-seven glosses of cane juice.—New York Syn.  At a "Sugar Boiling," There is an exhibition of sewing machines at the Royal aquarium, London, where English, American and German sewing machines aro being shown. It is the first exhibition of the kind', but will be repeated, it is said, ia Boston, Mass,, apd subsequently in Pari*. Therq are patents shown, and they include many ndveltiee, A specimen of the first sewing machine ever made, reproduced from the original specifications of Thomas Saint, of London, on inventor of the last century, is there, and with it are exhibited modern marhlnss sewing at the rate of 2,000 stitches a minute. The lowest priced one Is •1.87 and the highest $250.-New York Sun. Exhibition of Sewing Machines. In Days Oom Hy. The King's Head. The king's Head was lirst used as one of the hall marks on English silver in 1784. The *tory is that George III, having attended a dinner at Goldsmith's hall, was creatly impressed with the rich display of plate used on that occasion. His majesty was in need of money, it being just after the close of the American war, and the idea was suggested that diver plate WM » good article for taxation. Boon after the duty act was passed, -afcfcb imposed * tax of clxpena* per ounce on CaU4iver made in England, and ftjso enacted that tbo additional stamp of the king's head fr duty mark should be placed on all articles mm an evidence that the duty bad been laid. ■Tbo sovereign's head is the fifth mark, tuero-  iSSta I y^'d!l' Dorwiiv wa, a pt sphool and a rake inauv fine specimens of tbe earlier period «t college; so »ys bi* W#, pubowned iu Barton.—Boston Transcript A Ulted. *- , Hie wife of a recent governor of a far western state used to take her blankets and go cautiously out after nightfall to some ■haltered nook, there to sleep with the start for company. Her hUsband was obliged to make long freighting tripe to some distant mining camp. She has recently presided in her husband's home at the state capital, while ha filled the highest office In the state And that capital has sprung from a few dug outs to 75,000 lahabitante since her days anc nights of danger on the river blrn and her children, yet In their teens, have en enjoying the educational advantages of a state university.—Daughters of America, "Oh, you'r# sitting on my diamonds; pat up this minute." On examination he found that a little crumpled Wown paper parcel on the scat of the chair, which he had not noticed when he iat down, let slip when be picked it up a per* tect river of the most splendid gem*. Glasgow iron njen $rm offering (500 reward for the detection of the man who broke their market the other day by sending a forged order for the sale of 15,000 tons, There were two very angry country ladies in Hew York the other night, They had como to visit a rather penurious relative, who the next morning presented them with a little red covered guide book, with the legend "The way to see New York in half your intended time," inscribed iu gold letters across tbo frontispiece.—New York Letter. An cry Old Ia41m, The crazy quilt erase has had a variation in Connecticut, where a woman has embroidered the notes and words of "Home, Sweet Home," on a linen sheet ! "I keep them in brown paiw," she ex! claimed, "to deceive the burglaiu They'd never think of looking in a brown paper bag lying about anywher cn a shelf or iiD a drawer for somo tfT.VOOO worth of jewels. There havo been two .Itempts to steal thorn j within a year, and I hit on thisas a gojfcl way I to Mep them."—Brooklyn Citizen. Pumpkins grown on the Hudson have a name in raised letters grown on each. .Tbf name is cot through the skin when they are growing, and as it heals, up luaves a raised scar in the shape of "Baby Mine," "Dewdrop," "Jumbo" and other lnscriptiona.- Beston Budget. Cariosities la Pumpkins. f The rir« KSonpe. Guest—Rave you a fire escape in this hou/iqh Landjord—Two of 'oui, sir. Guest—I  an. T'uo Cro all escapod In my room last night, and I ciuue near freezing. l.aw«»* The Russian church, which has been in process of construction dtirttig the lost ten years on the Mount of Olives, is now flnfe^d. The Horace Greeley Post, G. A ft., of New York, Is formed entirely of printed who handled "slags" in war times. The great, muegitn of Egypt at Bouiaq wil be rempved to * site less, affected by damp jyss during tip high water season of Uvt